Cement, Energy and Environment

FOUR JOINT NCB-CMA PROGRAMMES CLEARED BY NCB'S RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE At its 58th meeting held on 21st March 2002 in New Delhi, the ResearchAdvisory Committee (RAC) of the National Council for Cement and BuildingMaterials (NCB) cleared a number of R&D projects funded from Cement Cess and Plan Grant. The Committee also approved the following programmes to be jointly executed by CMA and NCB : (i) Use of flyash and flyash-based portland pozzolana cement ih reinforced concrete construction (in collaboration NCB ResearchAdvisoryCommitteeMeeting in progress. Atcentre is the Chairman Shri L. Saberatnam. To his left is Shri Sf Raina, Director General (Actg), NCB. with CMA, Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee; Central Road Research Institute (CRRI}, States located in coastal, hilly and plains regions- CTM-02/02 New Delhi; Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi - (iii) Benchmarking and rating of performance PDD-01/02 indicators for continuous improvement in (ii) Model construction of 2-km stretch concrete roads in each of three selected energy conservation and environmental performance in the Indian cement industry- PON-02/02. Ceremonial opening of the experimental stretch of Fujibeton stabilised soil cement road laid at NCB Complex. Cheering the event are: (from centre to right) Shri TMMNambiar, Chairman NCB and President CMA; Shri V. Suresh, CMD HUDCO; Shri S fagadeesan, ft. Secy to the GOI, Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Shri Sf Raina Director General (Actg.) NCB; and AV Srinivasan, SG CMA (iv) Measurement of NOx and 50 2 emissions in cement plants for formulation of emission norms - ENV- 01 /02 The Meeting, piloted by RAC Chairman Shri L. Saberatnam, CEO, India Cements Ltd, was attended by more than 35 representatives from the cement industry, construction agencies, allied research institutes, reputed consultancy firms and senior scientists from NCB.